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7? Microsemma Lagirr.'—Flowers polygamous-dicecious ; re- 
ceptacle rather convex. Sepals 5 or more rarely 6, thick, dorsally 
subcostate, much imbricated, persistent ; each at base furnished in- 
wardly with a small gland (coloured) fornicate-2-fid. Stamens © ; 
filaments free or slightly connate at base, in bud corrugate ; anthers 
slightly introrse ; connective rather thick; cells linear curvate, lon- 
gitudinally rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary effete,” 
much setose), 8—12-locular ;* style short, apex stigmatiferous 5, 6-fid. 
Ovule in each cell solitary (?), descending from summit of internal 
angle; micropyle extrorse superior. Capsule surrounded by base of 
persistent calyx and staminal filaments, 8—12-locular, with locu- 
licidal dehiscence ; columella 0. Seeds in cells solitary descending ;* 
testa hard; ventral raphe and chalaza’ prominent below, arillate 
fleshy; albumen thin fleshy ; cotyledons of shorter embryo’ elliptical- 
ovate; radicle conical superior.—Erect branching shrubs; leaves 
alternate oblong coriaceous ;’ petiole articulate at base ; flowers um- 
bellate (?) lateral or subterminal’ (W. Caledonia’). 

II. TERNSTRŒMIEZÆ. 
8. Ternstrœmia L. r.—Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely 
polygamous ; receptacle shortly convex. Sepals 5, sometimes ciliate- 
glandular, much imbricated. Petals same in number opposite or 
more or less alternate, usually conical at base, imbricated. Stamens 
oo ; filaments often adnate to base of corolla, otherwise free ; anthers 
basitixed apiculate; cells adnate, introrse or lateral rimose. Germen 
free; cells 2 or more rarely 3, 4, complete; style conical, elongated 
or very short, apex stigmatiferous, simple or more or less widely 
2—4-lobed. Ovules in each cell 2 or more rarely 3-8, inserted on 
wide placentas at summit of internal angle of cells descendent, ana- 
tropous ; raphe dorsal, base more or less arched ; micropyle introrse 

1 Sert. Austro-caled., 58, t.57.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 5415.—B. H., Gen., 187, n. 25. 
? Cells sometimes distinct. 
3 Perhaps equal in number to stigma cells, 
but 2-locellate by false dissepiment. 
* Funicle rather long oblique. 
5 Albumen placed at summit of cupule of 
obconical chalaza below drawn out in an incurved 
filament with continuous raphe. 
5 Immature albumen scarcely extending to 
middle, 
7 Ribs, beneath, and twigs pubescent. 
8 Anomalous gen. to be expelled from the 
order Tr. & Px. (in Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 
539). Gynæceum hitherto imperfectly known. 
9 Spec. 1. M. salicifolia Lasix, loc, cit, 
